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Bill Gates

American Businessman

Nationality: American

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Type: Businessman

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Birth: 1955-?

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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments b

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Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

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The best teacher is very interactive.

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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the

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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people

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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their rep

» More quotes about: Technology | Internet

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

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The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

» More quotes about: Capitalism | Communism | Business

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor

» More quotes about: Capitalism | Democracy

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

» More quotes about: Business | Capitalism

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

» More quotes about: Health | Help

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

» More quotes about: Business | Innovation

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

» More quotes about: Change

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

» More quotes about: Business

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

» More quotes about: Computers

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

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If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

» More quotes about: Reputation

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

» More quotes about: Business | Technology

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking p

» More quotes about: Technology

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

» More quotes about: Entrepreneurship

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

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In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

» More quotes about: Education

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

» More quotes about: Privacy

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

» More quotes about: Planning

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who

» More quotes about: Computers

» More quotes about: Genius

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

» More quotes about: Cars | Technology

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section

» More quotes about: Cars

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

» More quotes about: Technology | Change

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that eve

» More quotes about: Environmentalism

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sil

» More quotes about: Change | Ignorance

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

» More quotes about: India | Economy

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

» More quotes about: Environmentalism

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

» More quotes about: Change | Business

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold b

» More quotes about: Computers | Security

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consu

» More quotes about: Design

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

» More quotes about: Design | Computers

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

» More quotes about: Education | Unemployment

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

» More quotes about: Education | America

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned t

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By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

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I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

» More quotes about: Failure | Success

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

» More quotes about: Innovation

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

» More quotes about: Future | Poverty

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

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The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

» More quotes about: Immigration | America

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

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Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to

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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know,

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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of th

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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

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People everywhere love Windows.

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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

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If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

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The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

» More quotes about: Technology | Education

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watchin

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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

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The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

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The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids

» More quotes about: Sports | Football

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

» More quotes about: Internet | Freedom

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

» More quotes about: Innovation | Computers

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

» More quotes about: Education | Growth | Action

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

» More quotes about: Sports | Education

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

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Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

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